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Internee E-Group
INTERNEE E-GROUP If you would like to join our online egroup for persons interested in German American and Latin American internment, you may do so by sending an email to the following address and typing SUBSCRIBE in the...
Document Archive
Materials Related to World War II Control and Internment of Civilians in the United States and Latin America Alien Enemies Act of 1798 Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders Presidential Proclamations, Dec 1941: Japanese 2525 German 2526 Italian 2527...
Curriculum
CURRICULUM GUIDE AND LESSON PLANS Curriculum Guide and Lesson Plans, including Three One-Act Plays The following Instructions to Teachers, Lesson Plan Table of Contents and Lesson Plans are available in pdf format by clicking on the related, highlighted document...
Internee Records
OBTAINING AN INTERNEE'S RECORDS For many, the decision to request family internment records is a difficult one. You are not sure what you will get or if you will like what you read. The decision is an individual one, and the GAIC generally encourages document...
Inouye Memoir
Hisao Inouye's Story While our website is about German American and Latin American residents interned during WW II, we are making an exception to post Hisao Inouye's memoirs here. He was held in temporary facilities, a military prison, and various Immigration...
Max Ebel’s Rehearing Report
the Welcker Family Story
The Welcker Family Story by Rosita Welcker My name is Rosita Welcker. I am German citizen and live in Bogota, Colombia. My father’s name was Friedrich Paul Welcker. He was born in Moenchengladbach, Germany on April 4, 1902. He moved to South America in 1931 and first...
Joachim Rehbock’s Story
A brief history of Joachim Rehbock My paternal uncle Joachim F. Rehbock was born in Karlsruhe, Land of Baden-Wuertenberg, Germany on April 7, 1910. He was the third son (my father Arnold was the second) of Theodor Rehbock, professor in Hydraulic Engineering at the...
Heidi Gurcke Donald, Vice President/Treasurer
Heidi Gurcke Donald and her family were expelled from their home in San José, Costa Rica and interned in Crystal City, Texas, for fifteen months before her father, Werner Gurcke, was released on parole. A graduate of the University of California in San Francisco, she...
The Grabers
The Grabers, two young boys and their German-born parents, lived in New Jersey in an apartment building owned by a Polish landlord. When Hitler invaded Poland, the relationship became strained, so the Grabers moved. The landlord contacted the FBI. Mr. Graber worked on...
Ursula Vogt Potter, Secretary
Ursula Vogt Potter, a retired educator and Washington State native, is the daughter of a former German internee. In 2003, she published The Misplaced American, a compilation of family World War II memoirs centered on her father’s internment. Since then, she has been...
John Christgau, Director
John Christgau, a California resident, is the author of nine books. His novel Spoon won the Society of Midland Authors prize for "Best Fiction." ENEMIES, this country’s first book on the World War II Alien Enemy Control Program (AECP), was published by the Iowa State...
Lothar Eiserloh, Director
Lothar Eiserloh and his family experienced major upheaval with the advent of WW II. His father, Mathias, was arrested the day after the Pearl Harbor bombing. For two years his mother, Johanna, struggled daily to feed, clothe, and house her children, before the family...
Legacy of Crystal City’s Internment Camps
Robyn Ross's 2014 article for the Texas Observer, "Legacy of Crystal City's Internment Camps," discusses the Crystal City, Texas, Family Internment Camp of WW II, which provided much needed work for many Crystal City residents. The article outlines the history of the...
John Christgau
Author and historian, John Christgau wrote the first book published in the United States about the Enemy Alien Control Program, Enemies.
Heidi Gurcke Donald
Former internee and author Heidi Gurcke Donald's website
Jay Feldman
Author and historian Jay Feldman's website
Stephen Fox
Author and German internment researcher Stephen Fox’s website; his blog
Major Arthur D. Jacobs
Author and German internment researcher, Major Arthur D. Jacobs’ website
Priscilla Wegars
Author and historian Priscilla Wegars' website—She has a Table of Justice Department and U.S. Army Internment Camps and Detention Stations in the U.S. during World War II
Two Articles about German Latin American Experiences during WW II
Zach Dyer, a journalist based in San José, Costa Rica, wrote two articles in December 2014, about German Costa Rican experiences with arrest, internment, and expulsion from Costa Rica. The first, published in The Guardian on December 5, 2014, is entitled "Lost story...